Cinnamon Crumb Pound Cake

Cinnamon Crumb Pound Cake. Have better words ever been strung together? This recipe rivals some of the best coffee cakes I’ve ever had – and it’s so ridiculously easy that I feel dumb for ever paying $4 a slice at Starbucks. It’s like a moist pound cake and an awesome coffee cake had a baby… it’s that good!

It works best with a stand mixer, but I’ve also had a friend test it with her handheld mixer and it works great, too. So it’s been double tested by two different cooks in two different kitchens and they both turned out amazing. Double yay.

Cinnamon Crumb Pound Cake

Cake ingredients:

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4 cups all purpose flour

3 cups sugar

1 pound (or 4 sticks) of butter, softened

3/4 cup milk

6 eggs

1 tablespoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In the bowl of a stand mixer (or regular bowl for a handheld) put in all of the ingredients at once and mix it all up at medium speed for two minutes. (No creaming butter and stuff, just dump it all in and mix it up, baby!) It will take two regular size loaf pans, or you can do one regular and 4 tiny ones (like in the photo below). A regular loaf pan will take 1 hour 30 minutes or small ones will take 1 hour 10 minutes – BUT either way, half way through you’re going to pull them out and add the cinnamon crumb topping below:

For the topping

1 cup firmly packed brown sugar

1/2 cup granulated sugar

2 tablespoons cinnamon

2 cups all purpose flour

1 cup (2 sticks) of cold butter cut in chunks

In the bowl of your mixer (or, again, in a regular bowl) put in all ingredients and mix together until you have a slight pebble consistency. Spread out the mixture on a sheet pan and put in the refrigerator to harden until you are ready to put on top of the half baked pound cakes.

Once the cakes have completed baking time, let cool before serving.

All of my neighbors love getting the mini versions of my cinnamon crumb pound cake as gifts, if I can keep my family from eating it all!

Ingredients

For the Cake:

For the topping

1cupfirmly packed brown sugar

1/2cupgranulated sugar

2tablespoonscinnamon

2cupsall purpose flour

1cup2 sticks of cold butter cut in chunks

Instructions

For the Cake:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In the bowl of a stand mixer (or regular bowl for a handheld) put in all of the ingredients at once and mix it all up at medium speed for two minutes. (No creaming butter and stuff, just dump it all in and mix it up, baby!) It will take two regular size loaf pans, or you can do one regular and 4 tiny ones (like in the photo below). A regular loaf pan will take 1 hour 30 minutes or small ones will take 1 hour 10 minutes - BUT either way, half way through you're going to pull them out and add the cinnamon crumb topping below:

For the topping

In the bowl of your mixer (or, again, in a regular bowl) put in all ingredients and mix together until you have a slight pebble consistency. Spread out the mixture on a sheet pan and put in the refrigerator to harden until you are ready to put on top of the half baked pound cakes.

Once the cakes have completed baking time, let cool before serving.

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About Gina Luker

Gina Luker is a writer, photographer and lover of all things quirky. She's usually found with a drill in one hand and a cocktail in the other while blogging along the way. She's addicted to coffee, polka dots, rock stars, Instagram, and everything aqua.

Can you tell me what would happen if you put the Cinnamon mixture on top at the beginning of the baking time?
Could you as toasted pecans to the mix?
Could you do a layer of the mix in the middle of the. Ake?
Thank you!

Found your site on a recipe search after buying Costco’s and thinking I found heaven in my mouth! Just wondering if you ever had it from there and how this compares. I’ll let you know as soon as I try it

I found this recipe the same way! Have you tried it yet, Maggie? My dad used to get the Costco one (the cinnamon butter pound coffee cake, right?) from a local cafe that closed and we were hoping to get one for Father’s Day, but our local Costco stores don’t seem to carry it anymore 🙁

Oh, I have to try this cake ~ I just found the recipe tonight! Adore it, but with your additions? Awesome!
One quick question: did you make the gift “trays”/boxes you put the mini cakes in for gifting? If so, is there a template you would share? I could probably “invent” one, but I would sure love to find you’ve already created them! Or if you bought the trays, where ~ please?!?
Thanks, Gina! This looks absolutely YUM!

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